"The great thing about RSS is that no-one controls it — you can’t buy it, block it or ban it. It..."

“The great thing about RSS is that no-one controls it — you can’t buy it, block it or ban it. It adheres to one of the web’s founding principles; “information wants to be free”. Meanwhile Twitter, Facebook and Google’s founding principles are closer to; “information needs to be monetised”.”



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Apple joins the war on RSS Gerd Leonhard comments: are we nearing the end of anything that is NOT monetized? (via futuresagency)


I am thinking there is no war being waged. From personal experience, I LOVE RSS. But from practical experience with the people I work with… no one knows what RSS is. The masses just do not use it in any real way. It is a lot like Usenet. Only we nerds know what it is… well we and the pervs.






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